The latest Green500 list (http://www.green500.org/lists/green201211) has been released today at the SC12 supercomputing conference in Salt Lake City, USA. The purpose of the Green500 is to provide a ranking of the most energy-efficient supercomputers in the world. Two HPC system installed in Switzerland are now ranked in the top 10: Position 4: Todi Cray XK7 [...]
This year the Swiss HPC provider community hpc-ch participated in the ISC12 exhibition in Hamburg again. Like last year, our booth had a great success with a large number of visitors. According to our lead retrieval system (visitor batches scanned at our booth) we had a total of 189 different visitors, placing our booth in [...]
We are happy to welcome @datanami as our 100th follower on Twitter. Datanami is a news portal dedicated to providing insight, analysis and up-to-the-minute information about emerging trends and solutions in big data. Big data is an important topic also in Switzerland. For example on October 25th, 2012 all the hpc-ch community will meet at [...]
Switzerland will be present in the newly launched ISC HPC Blog launched at the beginning of February 2012. Michele De Lorenzi (head of communication and associate director at CSCS) and Simone Ulmer (science journalist) will be posting articles about HPC activities in Switzerland on a regular basis. To start the series of blog entries, they [...]
Dear members and guests of hpc-ch Last year was very successful for our hpc-ch community. In addition to the two forums we also participated for the first time with our own booth at ISC11 and SC11. I would like to thank all organizations (sponsoring, infrastructure) and people (engagement) that made all this possible. I believe [...]
